Years ago, I was at the then Flamingo in Laughlin with my then girlfriend(now wife) We were staying at the Edgewater. We found out on our first evening in town about a promation happening at the Flamingo. You accumulated tickets by eating, gambling, visiting the slot booth, etc. etc, etc. So we went to work on it, also finding out the food people were fairly appathetic about it and were freely giving out extra tickets. In summary, we made short work of accumulating a bundle. Drawings were held, I think on friday, sat. , and sunday after noons. Five names were pulled from the hopper. We had decided to put all of our tics in for one drawing, the sat. afternoon one. I was the last name drawn!! Then the five of us were in a slot machine competition for maybe ten minutes, in front of an audience. I pounded the heck out of my mackine and won. Then it was on to a monopoly game up on the stage. This is where it got interesting. There was a chute, and you had to drop two huge foam dice down the chute. So much like Bob Dancer, and his wheel of fortune at the gold Coast, I thought the situation over. If you got doubles you got another roll. Every time you went all the way around, and past go, you got an exra $2k. So I thought how about if I line up the doubles on the dice and drop them so they roll at the same rate of speed, next to each other, down the chute. There was nothing or anybody saying it was verbotten. So I thought what the heck, and did it, with the casino manager standing up there next to me. After I passed go the first time, he walked over and said"do that again, and we will give you another extra $2k!" So I guess I
I choked, but I flubbed it, walking away with $2780, or thereabouts for my efforts. My then girlfriend was still learning about me and casinos, and almost had incontinence problems over the whole thing. Oh yeah, when I got to the cashier's cage to collect on my chit from the manager, I requested a cashier's check for the entire amount. The woman looked at me rather startled, and said "for the entire amount??" and I smiled and said yes please, and got the check. The funny thing that happened after that was that nite when we got back to the Edgewater, and lo and behoild our name was up on the board for a win that we would need to stay three more nites to collect, rather than our planned one nite more. Amazing!! We let that one go. I know, just a coincidence. UH-huh!!